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Remember how the Lord your God has led you in the desert for these forty years, taking away your pride and testing you, because he wanted to know what was in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands.

When you have all you want to eat, then praise the Lord your God for giving you a good land.

and manna to eat in the desert. Manna was something your ancestors had never seen. He did this to take away your pride and to test you, so things would go well for you in the end.

Just as the Lord destroyed the other nations for you, you can be destroyed if you do not obey the Lord your God.

When I went up on the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets with the Agreement the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread or drink water.

Then the Lord told me, "Get up and go down quickly from here, because the people you brought out from Egypt are ruining themselves. They have quickly turned away from what I commanded and have made an idol for themselves."

Then I again bowed facedown on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread or drink water. You had sinned by doing what the Lord said was evil, and you made him angry.

And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but then I prayed for Aaron, too.

The Lord had said he would destroy you, so I threw myself down in front of him for those forty days and forty nights.

and obey the Lord 's commands and laws that I am giving you today for your own good.

But the Lord cared for and loved your ancestors, and he chose you, their descendants, over all the other nations, just as it is today.

He is the one you should praise; he is your God, who has done great and wonderful things for you, which you have seen with your own eyes.

They did not see what he did for you in the desert until you arrived here.

It is a land the Lord your God cares for. His eyes are on it continually, and he watches it from the beginning of the year to the end.

He will put grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will have plenty to eat.

but look for the place the Lord your God will choose—a place among your tribes where he is to be worshiped. Go there,

There you will be together with the Lord your God. There you and your families will eat, and you will enjoy all the good things for which you have worked, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

Eat these things when you are together with the Lord your God, in the place the Lord your God chooses to be worshiped. Everyone must do this: you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns. Rejoice in the Lord your God's presence about the things you have worked for.

If you don't eat it, things will go well for you and your children, because you will be doing what the Lord says is right.

Be careful to obey all the rules I am giving you so that things will always go well for you and your children, and you will be doing what the Lord your God says is good and right.